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    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      Interview41 min
      Salman Rushdie: a life in writing

      The writer discusses his long career as an author at the FT Weekend Festival in Washington DC

    • Saturday, 20 May, 2023
      Salman Rushdie says he is writing book about near-fatal knife attack

      Writer defends freedom of expression and says he is recovering in appearance at FT Weekend festival

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      ReviewFiction
      Best new audio books — Rushdie’s mesmerising history of medieval India

      Plus Jonathan Escoffery’s impressive collection of stories, a thriller from Louise Candlish and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Salman Rushdie’s Victory City is a testimony to the power of words

      The author who was brutally attacked last year conjures up a fantasy world where India’s great religions come together

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      OutlookSimon Kuper
      Fay Weldon’s death is a reminder of advertising’s golden age

      There’s a century-old tradition of creative writers honing their talent promoting brands

    • Sunday, 23 October, 2022
      Salman Rushdie ‘loses sight in one eye and use of hand’

      Author of ‘The Satanic Verses’ has sustained permanent injuries after knife attack in New York state, his agent says

    • Friday, 19 August, 2022
      FT Swamp Notes
      Je Suis sometimes Salman Rushdie Premium content

      Freedom of speech needs to be valued at all times as the author’s long career lays out

    • Friday, 19 August, 2022
      FT Weekend’s best long reads of 2022
      Salman Rushdie and the sacred right to irreverence

      Following the savage attack on the author, Simon Schama argues that disrespect is essential for democracy and that his friend’s fight for free expression is for us all

    • Friday, 19 August, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The tangled history of the ‘Satanic Verses’

      How a story from 1,400 years ago inspired Salman Rushdie’s novel and reawakened a long-buried theological question

    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Attack on Salman Rushdie underlines threats to free speech

      Freedom of expression needs to be defended with even more vehemence

    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      Janan Ganesh
      Liberals must overcome their aversion to conflict

      It sometimes takes a radical to fight a radical

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      Iran
      Iran denies links to Salman Rushdie attack

      Author remains in critical condition following attempt on his life in New York

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      Blinken condemns ‘despicable’ Iranian response to Salman Rushdie attack

      Author who spent years in hiding because of fatwa is in critical condition but able to speak

    • Saturday, 13 August, 2022
      Author Salman Rushdie stabbed at event in New York state

      Suspect charged with attempted murder and assault of writer who spent years in hiding because of Iranian fatwa

    • Friday, 4 June, 2021
      Nilanjana Roy
      Tall tales and true

      Salman Rushdie’s latest collection reminds us of the importance of shared stories in a seemingly more fractured world

    • Tuesday, 3 September, 2019
      Fiction
      Booker Prize shortlist announced

      Two former winners among the finalists for the prestigious fiction prize

    • Friday, 23 August, 2019
      ReviewFiction
      Quichotte by Salman Rushdie — metafictional mission in a Chevy Cruze

      A Don Quixote-inspired quest across the US showcases Rushdie’s virtues and vices

    • Friday, 13 July, 2018
      Nilanjana Roy
      The Booker’s biggest challenge: staying relevant

      At 50, the literary award has consistently delivered good longlists and shortlists, but it hasn’t been without its critics

    • Friday, 29 September, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Golden House by Salman Rushdie — laurel and liberty

      An unruly but exuberant novel views contemporary America through a classical lens

    • Friday, 29 September, 2017
      Nilanjana Roy
      The podcasts that give voice to a new form of storytelling

      How the spoken word is breathing life into fiction

    • Friday, 22 September, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Salman Rushdie: ‘Trump is not a reader, is he?’

      The novelist talks about his new novel, life in the US, and his ‘other two countries’

    • Friday, 25 November, 2016
      ObituaryBooks
      Gillon Aitken, book publishing agent, 1938-2016

      Literary lion who fought for authors with a quiet fervour

    • Friday, 2 October, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      ‘Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights’, by Salman Rushdie

      This latter-day fairytale has some witty flourishes but lacks emotional heft

    • Monday, 17 August, 2015
      Americas companies
      Writers slam ‘censorship by bullet’ in Mexico

      Reporters in ‘deadly peril’ following string of attacks amid a lukewarm response from government

    • Tuesday, 4 August, 2015
      FT Podcast
      A new medium that harnesses the ancient power of storytelling

      The first of four weekly guides to the best podcasts

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